Ethel Lynn Beers

Ethel Lynn Beers (1827–1879), born Ethelinda Eliot, was an American poet whose The Picket Guard, first printed in 1861, became one of the best-known songs of the Civil War.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: The Picket Guard.